Maldon Primary School

About Maldon Primary School

Maldon Primary School has been rated Good across every category in its most recent Ofsted inspection, a significant turnaround from its previous Inadequate rating. The inspection, carried out in July 2023, awarded the school Good marks for overall effectiveness, quality of education, behaviour and attitudes, personal development, leadership and management, and early years provision. This represents a notable improvement, as the previous inspection in February 2022 had rated the school Inadequate overall, with Requires Improvement for quality of education and early years provision, and Inadequate for behaviour, personal development, and leadership. The most telling exam metric is the proportion of pupils reaching the expected standard in reading, writing, and maths combined, which stands at 45 per cent. While this is below the local authority average of 62 per cent, the school's reading and writing scores tell a more positive story, with 66 per cent of pupils reaching the expected standard in each of those subjects individually.

Looking more closely at the 2023/24 Key Stage 2 results, the school's average reading score of 103 and average maths score of 100 are both in line with national expectations. However, the proportion of pupils reaching the higher standard in reading is 21 per cent, compared with just 7 per cent in maths and 7 per cent in writing. The school ranks 319th out of 444 primary schools in Essex, placing it in the bottom half of the local authority. In the East of England region, it sits at 1,308th out of 1,612 schools, and nationally at 11,652th out of 13,686. These rankings reflect the combined reading, writing, and maths expected standard metric, where the school scores 45 out of 100. For context, the top-performing peers in the area, such as Stambridge Primary School and St Thomas More's Catholic Primary School, both achieved a perfect ranking score of 100.

Maldon Primary School is a state-funded mixed primary for pupils aged 4 to 11, with 182 pupils on roll against a capacity of 240. It is oversubscribed for the 2025/26 academic year, receiving 33 applications for 21 places, with 17 first-preference offers made. The school serves a community with high levels of disadvantage, as 50 per cent of pupils are eligible for free school meals. Facilities include playing fields, a library, music rooms, a sensory room, a forest school, and a chapel. The school offers a wide range of sports including netball, football, gymnastics, dance, athletics, cross country, and cricket, plus clubs such as coding, film club, gardening, drama, and choir. Its SEND provisions cover moderate learning difficulty, social, emotional and mental health needs, speech, language and communication needs, hearing and visual impairments, multi-sensory impairment, and autistic spectrum disorder. This school is best suited to families who value a supportive environment with strong pastoral care and a broad extracurricular offer, and who are comfortable with a school that is still improving its academic outcomes.

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